A user-specific interleaver design for interleave-division multipleaccess (IDMA) systems is proposed. This method can solve the memory cost problem for chip-level interleavers, and reduce the amount of information exchange between mobile stations and base stations to specify the interleaver used as their identifications.

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The pragmatic approach to coded continuous-phase modulation (CPM) is proposed as a capacity-achieving lowcomplexity alternative to the serially-concatenated CPM (SC-CPM) coding scheme. In this paper, we first perform a selection of the best spectrally-efficient CPM modulations to be embedded into SC-CPM schemes. Then, we consider the pragmatic capacity (a.k.a. BICM capacity) of CPM modulations and optimize it through a careful design of the mapping between input bits and CPM waveforms. The so obtained schemes are cascaded with an outer serially-concatenated convolutional code to form a pragmatic coded-modulation system. The resulting schemes exhibit performance very close to the CPM capacity without requiring iterations between the outer decoder and the CPM demodulator. As a result, the receiver exhibits reduced complexity and increased flexibility due to the separation of the demodulation and decoding functions. Memoryless Channel Convolutional Convolutional decoder CPE SISO decoder and demapper demodulator Memoryless CPM channel SISO binary encoder modulator CPE P (y|x) CCPM x(t; b) y(t; b) Ĉ d d Π Π −1 Π M Fig. 2. Block diagram of a serially concatenated CPM co-decoder. The block labeled M maps blocks of m bits to M -ary CPM symbols.

The implementation of a common control channel is one of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio networks, since a fully reliable control channel cannot be created without reserving bandwidth specifically for this purpose. In this paper, we investigate a promising solution that exploits the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology to let cognitive radio nodes discover each other and exchange control information for establishing a communication link. The contribution of this paper is threefold: (i) we define the communication protocol needed to let cognitive radio nodes discover each other and exchange control information for link set up, (ii) we overcome the gap in coverage, which typically exists between UWB and long-medium range technologies, by using multi-hop communication, (iii) we evaluate the performance of our approach by adopting an accurate channel model and show its benefits with respect to an in-band signalling solution.

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